Foxholes Quotes

• There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Ku Klux Klan, Doubt

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• No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fighting, Race, White

  Special Message to Congress on Civil Rights, 19 June 1963

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• There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

  James K. Morrow

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

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• There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Atheist, Atheism

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• There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

  John F. Kennedy

  White, Battle, Civil Rights

  Message to Congress on proposed civil rights bill, 19 June 1963

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• The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.128, Penguin

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• When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

  Lee Benson

  Men, Color, Worry

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• My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.

  Bill Mauldin

  Reading, Italian, Years

  Bill Mauldin, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (1978). “Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution”, Government Printing Office

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• My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.

  George S. Patton

  Moving, Men, Giving

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• I think that 99% of the snipers who take shots at me from electronic foxholes also realize they could never withstand the sort of public disparagement, nor the revelation of so many personal details, that I've endured for years and still remain as impenitent, obnoxious, and ready to argue all critics into the dirt as I am. I think this also jacks up their hatred level, because they realize they'd never be so strong-willed.

  Jim Goad

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole to protect themselves from the bullets whizzing by ? A part of their brain knows damn well that if they do not protect themselves, the bullets will hardly discriminate between those who claim faith and those who reject it.

  J. Anderson Thomson

  Atheist, Believe, Faithful

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• Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!

  Henry Pierson Crowe

  Military, Heart, Marine

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• These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’

  Tom Seaver

  Baseball, Running, War

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• Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them.

  Patricia Hampl

  Flying, Knees, Planes

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Virgin Time”

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• But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

  J. D. Salinger

  War, Book, Hero

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• People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Atheist, Thinking, People

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• Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Witty, Peace

  "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". Stand-up act, edition.cnn.com. 1972.

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• People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

  "GOP National Co-Chair Pat Harrison Discusses Polls, Bush's Gaffe and the Firestone Recall". "Capital Gang" with Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. September 9, 2000.

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• I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

  Mitch Albom

  War, Believe, Order

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• When there is a gap between what's on the outside and what's on the inside, that's when people retreat into their foxholes because it is an unsafe situation. You don't know what you are dealing with. What you see is not what you are going to get. And that is when people start withdrawing.

  Parker J. Palmer

  People, Gaps, Retreat

  Source: www.youthworker.com

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• My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers."

  George H. W. Bush

  Guy, Soldier, My Favorite

  "FOX News Sunday" With Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 04, 2007.

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• There are no atheists in the foxholes.

  William Thomas Cummings

  Atheist, Insightful, World War 2

  Quoted in Carlos P. Romulo, I Saw the Fall of the Philippines (1943)

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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Military, War

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• There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Atheism, Chaplains, Fronts

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.128, Penguin

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